RE: RC: Lopsidedness

["Kathy Mayeda" <Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com>]

Title: RE: RC: Lopsidedness

I’m with ya, babe!  I have had the same exact issues.  And what makes it worse is that
my horse physically started out being crooked in the same direction that I would make
him crooked with my own crooked riding, so it’s a real conscious effort to overcome it!

If you can, switch horses for awhile while someone else (balanced rider) rides your horse.
That has helped me a lot, too, while I was overcoming my “injury”.  Actually I didn’t know
how out of whack physically I was until I took a Centered Riding clinic a few months after having been
tossed 5 times the spring after an El Nino year.  I had been numbing out my body issues to ride,
and didn’t know how badly I needed chiropractic care myself because otherwise I just crawled
back onto his back each time and continued to ride.  Always landed on my right hip – and his
right side is higher than his left….

Your horse may be making you lopsided, too!

K.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Erin McCrary [mailto:emac_hubbs@hotmail.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:48 PM
To:     Kathy Mayeda; ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject:        Re: RC: Lopsidedness

 << Message: RC:  Lopsidedness >> I haven't read all of ridecamp mail re:lopsidedness, so I'm sorry if I'm off
on this a bit.  I seem to be having this problem and I have found that just
after I have gone to the chiropractor  I feel much more balanced.  Ofcourse
my pelvis has been pretty screwed up from some nasty accidents (riding).  I
have also found out, thanks to a friend of mine who watched me ride, that I
seem to favor riding my horse more to the left than the right, therefore, I
tend to go to the left more when doing arena work than the right.  This has
caused my horse to be lopsided and a lefty.  I'm trying to correct all of
this and we're coming along, slowly.
Erin





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